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©Erica Sacchetti
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Elena Sueri

  • NINA ATELIER
  • Weaver
  • Cavezzo, Italy
  • Rising Star
Elena Sueri Weaver
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 3334144919
©Mattia Medici

From costume design to weaving

  • • Elena is not only a tailor but also an expert weaver
  • • She creates most of her garments from zero, spinning fibres into yarns
  • • She used to work as a costume designer for theatre

Elena Sueri’s workshop is a converted mill full of fascinating machinery, including two manual horizontal looms, a tapestry loom, a spinning wheel and a few drop spindles. Some people think all these machines are here just for show, but they are not. Elena is not only a tailor but a weaver, too. She creates most of her garments and accessories from the very beginning, which entails hand spinning wool, silk, cotton and other fibres into yarns. For this reason, it takes her a long time to manufacture her beautiful pieces, that are all one-of-a-kind and unrepeatable. Some of them are bespoke, designed and handmade from scratch according to a customer’s requests. Others are her own designs, but they can always be modified and customised.

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Works

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  • ©Elena Sueri_Nina Atelier
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Strade (roads)

Woman’s handbag, trapezoid-shaped, with wooden handle and metal clasp closure. For the external part, Elena Sueri used a fabric she wove herself on the 8-heddle loom, mixing cream-colored Bourette silk and magenta alpaca wool, naturally dyed. The teal-colored viscose used for lining comes from scraps of previous creations.

Length 35 cm
Width 12.5 cm
Height 23 cm

Photo: ©Elena Sueri_Nina Atelier
Asymmetries

This woman’s block-shaped handbag has a wooden handle and an iron clasp closure. For the external part, Elena Sueri used a fabric she wove herself on the 4-heddle loom, mixing Shappe silk and Brogna wool in different colours to create a geometric pattern. The wool is hand-dyed by Elena with plants. The coral-coloured viscose used for the lining comes from scraps of previous creations.

Length 21 cm
Width 12 cm
Height 23 cm

Photo: ©Erica Sacchetti
Hug

This fringed scarf is hand woven with silk and Brogna wool. Three colours are used to create a striped pattern: army green, light blue and white.

Photo: ©Erica Sacchetti
Think pink!

Elena Sueri created this woman’s striped suit, with jacket, top and wrap skirt with pink silk she wove herself, using a 4-heddle loom. The green-coloured fabric used for the lining is a mix of polyester and elastane and comes from scraps of previous creations.

Photo: ©Elena Sueri_Nina Atelier
New old warps

This trapezoid-shaped woman’s handbag has a wooden handle and a metal clasp closure. For the external part, Elena Sueri used a fabric she made herself on the 4-heddle loom, weaving silk threads left over from previous creations, mixing different pastel colours. The white lining in the inside, too, is made of hemp leftovers.

Length 21 cm
Width 12 cm
Height 23 cm

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